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Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.